71. The expedition of Dhū Qarad
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1214No grade recorded
غَزْوَةَ ذِي قَرَدٍ [ غَارَةُ ابْنِ حِصْنٍ عَلَى لِقَاحِ الرَّسُولِ ] ثُمَّ قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةَ، فَلَمْ يُقِمْ بِهَا إلَّا لَيَالِيَ قَلَائِلَ، حَتَّى أَغَارَ عُيَيْنَةُ بْنُ حِصْنِ بْنِ حُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ بَدْرٍ الْفَزَارِيُّ، فِي خَيْلٍ مِنْ غَطَفَانَ عَلَى لِقَاحٍ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِالْغَابَةِ، وَفِيهَا رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي غِفَارٍ وَامْرَأَةٌ لَهُ، فَقَتَلُوا الرَّجُلَ، وَاحْتَمَلُوا الْمَرْأَةَ فِي اللِّقَاحِ.
✧ The Expedition of Dhū Qarad [Ibn Ḥiṣn's raid on the Messenger's milch camels]. Then the Messenger of God ﷺ arrived in Madinah, and he had not stayed there but a few nights before ʿUyaynah b. Ḥiṣn b. Ḥudhayfah b. Badr al-Fazārī raided, with horsemen from Ghaṭafān, some milch camels belonging to the Messenger of God ﷺ at al-Ghābah. With them were a man from Banū Ghifār and his wife. They killed the man and carried off the woman together with the milch camels.
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1215No grade recorded
[ بَلَاءُ ابْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ فِي هَذِهِ الْغَزْوَةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَحَدَّثَنِي عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، وَمَنْ لَا أَتَّهِمُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، كُلٌّ قَدْ حَدَّثَ فِي غَزْوَةِ ذِي قَرَدٍ بَعْضَ الْحَدِيثِ: أَنَّهُ كَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ نَذَرَ بِهِمْ سَلَمَةُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ الْأَسْلَمِيُّ، غَدا يُرِيدُ الْغَابَةَ مُتَوَشِّحًا قَوْسَهُ وَنَبْلَهُ، وَمَعَهُ غُلَامٌ لِطَلْحَةِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ مَعَهُ فَرَسٌ لَهُ يَقُودُهُ، حَتَّى إذَا عَلَا ثَنِيَّةَ الْوَدَاعِ نَظَرَ إلَى بَعْضِ خُيُولِهِمْ، فَأَشْرَفَ فِي نَاحِيَةِ سَلْعٍ، ثُمَّ صَرَخَ: وَاصَبَاحَاهُ، ثُمَّ خَرَجَ يَشْتَدُّ فِي آثَارِ الْقَوْمِ، وَكَانَ مِثْلَ السَّبُعِ حَتَّى لَحِقَ بِالْقَوْمِ، فَجَعَلَ يَرُدُّهُمْ بِالنَّبْلِ، وَيَقُولُ إذَا رَمَى: خُذْهَا وَأَنَا ابْنُ الْأَكْوَعِ، الْيَوْمُ يَوْمُ الرُّضَّعِ، فَإِذَا وُجِّهَتْ الْخَيْلُ نَحْوَهُ انْطَلَقَ هَارِبًا، ثُمَّ عَارَضَهُمْ، فَإِذَا أَمْكَنَهُ الرَّمْيُ رَمَى، ثُمَّ قَالَ: خُذْهَا وَأَنَا ابْنُ الْأَكْوَعِ، الْيَوْمُ يَوْمُ الرُّضَّعِ، قَالَ: فَيَقُولُ قَائِلُهُمْ: أُوَيْكَعُنَا هُوَ أَوَّلُ النَّهَارِ
✧ [The gallantry of Ibn al-Akwaʿ in this expedition] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah, ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Bakr, and one whom I do not suspect, narrated to me from ʿAbd Allāh b. Kaʿb b. Mālik, each having related part of the account of the expedition of Dhū Qarad: that the first to give warning of them was Salamah b. ʿAmr b. al-Akwaʿ al-Aslamī. He went out early, intending [to go to] al-Ghābah, carrying his bow and arrows slung over his shoulder, and with him was a servant of Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbayd Allāh, leading a horse of his. When he ascended Thaniyyat al-Wadāʿ, he saw some of their horses and looked out toward the side of Salʿ; then he cried out: “Wā ṣabāḥāh!” Then he set off hastening in the tracks of the people. He was like a beast of prey until he caught up with the people, and he began turning them back with arrows, saying whenever he shot: “Take it! I am Ibn al-Akwaʿ; today is the day of the sucklings.” When the horses were turned toward him, he fled; then he opposed them, and when shooting became possible for him, he shot and said: “Take it! I am Ibn al-Akwaʿ; today is the day of the sucklings.” He said: One of them would say, “Is it our little ʿAkwaʿ? He is the first of the day.”
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1216No grade recorded
[ صُرَاخُ الرَّسُولِ وَتَسَابُقُ الْفُرْسَانِ إلَيْهِ في غزوة ذات قرد ] قَالَ: وَبَلَغَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ صِيَاحُ ابْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ، فَصَرَخَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ الْفَزَعُ الْفَزَعُ، فَتَرَامَتْ الْخُيُولُ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ. وَكَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ انْتَهَى إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِنْ الْفُرْسَانِ: الْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، وَهُوَ الَّذِي يُقَالُ لَهُ: الْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ، حَلِيفُ بَنِي زُهْرَةَ؛ ثُمَّ كَانَ أَوَّلَ فَارِسٍ وَقَفَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَعْدَ الْمِقْدَادِ مِنْ الْأَنْصَارِ، عَبَّادُ بْنُ بِشْرِ بْنِ وَقْشِ بْنِ زُغْبَةَ بْنِ زَعُورَاءَ، أَحَدُ بَنِي عَبْدِ الْأَشْهَلِ؛ وَسَعْدُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، أَحَدُ بَنِي كَعْبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْأَشْهَلِ؛ وَأُسَيْدُ بْنُ ظُهَيْرٍ، أَخُو بَنِي حَارِثَةَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، يُشَكُّ فِيهِ، وَعُكَّاشَةُ بْنُ مِحْصَنٍ، أَخُو بَنِي أَسَدِ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ؛ وَمُحْرِزُ بْنُ نَضْلَةَ، أَخُو بَنِي أَسَدِ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ، وَأَبُو قَتَادَةَ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ رِبْعِيٍّ، أَخُو بَنِي سَلِمَةَ، وَأَبُو عَيَّاشٍ، وَهُوَ عُبَيْدُ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، أَخُو بَنِي زُرَيْقٍ. فَلَمَّا اجْتَمَعُوا إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَمَّرَ عَلَيْهِمْ سَعْدَ بْنَ زَيْدٍ، فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي، ثُمَّ قَالَ: اُخْرُجْ فِي طَلَبِ الْقَوْمِ، حَتَّى أَلْحَقَكَ فِي النَّاسِ
✧ [The Messenger's cry and the racing of the horsemen to him during the expedition of Dhū Qarad] He said: The cry of Ibn al-Akwaʿ reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so he cried out in Madinah: "To arms! To arms!" The horses raced to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. The first of the horsemen to reach the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was al-Miqdād b. ʿAmr, who is called al-Miqdād b. al-Aswad, the ally of Banū Zuhrah. Then the first horseman of the Anṣār to stand before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ after al-Miqdād was ʿAbbād b. Bishr b. Waqsh b. Zughbah b. Zaʿūrāʾ, one of Banū ʿAbd al-Ashhal; and Saʿd b. Zayd, one of Banū Kaʿb b. ʿAbd al-Ashhal; and Usayd b. Ẓuhayr, brother of Banū Ḥārithah b. al-Ḥārith, about whom there is uncertainty; and ʿUkkāshah b. Miḥṣan, brother of Banū Asad b. Khuzaymah; and Muḥriz b. Naḍlah, brother of Banū Asad b. Khuzaymah; and Abū Qatādah al-Ḥārith b. Ribʿī, brother of Banū Salimah; and Abū ʿAyyāsh, who is ʿUbayd b. Zayd b. al-Ṣāmit, brother of Banū Zurayq. When they had gathered to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he appointed over them Saʿd b. Zayd, according to what has reached me, then he said: "Go out in pursuit of the people until I catch up with you among the people."
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1217No grade recorded
[ الرَّسُولُ وَنَصِيحَتُهُ لِأَبِي عَيَّاشٍ بِتَرْكِ فَرَسِهِ في غزوة ذات قرد ] وَقَدْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي عَنْ رِجَالٍ مِنْ بَنِي زُرَيْقٍ، لِأَبِي عَيَّاشٍ: يَا أَبَا عِيَاشٍ، لَوْ أَعْطَيْتُ هَذَا الْفَرَسَ رَجُلًا، هُوَ أَفْرَسُ مِنْكَ فَلَحِقَ بِالْقَوْمِ ؟ قَالَ أَبُو عَيَّاشٍ: فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، أَنَا أَفْرَسُ النَّاسِ، ثُمَّ ضَرَبْتُ الْفَرَسَ، فَوَاَللَّهِ مَا جَرَى بِي خَمْسِينَ ذِرَاعًا حَتَّى طَرَحَنِي، فَعَجِبْتُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: لَوْ أَعْطَيْتَهُ أَفْرَسَ مِنْكَ، وَأَنَا أَقُولُ: أَنَا أَفْرَسُ النَّاسِ. فَزَعَمَ رِجَالٌ مِنْ بَنِي زُرَيْقٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَعْطَى فَرَسَ أَبِي عَيَّاشٍ مُعَاذَ بْنَ مَاعِصٍ، أَوْ عَائِذَ بْنَ مَاعِصِ بْنِ قَيْسِ بْنِ خَلَدَةَ، وَكَانَ ثَامِنًا، وَبَعْضُ النَّاسِ يَعُدُّ سَلَمَةِ بْنَ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ أَحَدَ الثَّمَانِيَةِ، وَيَطْرَحُ أُسَيْدَ بْنَ ظُهَيْرٍ، أَخَا بَنِي حَارِثَةَ، وَاَللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ أَيُّ ذَلِكَ كَانَ. وَلَمْ يَكُنْ سَلَمَةُ يَوْمَئِذٍ فَارِسًا، وَقَدْ كَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ لَحِقَ بِالْقَوْمِ عَلَى رِجْلَيْهِ. فَخَرَجَ الْفُرْسَانُ فِي طَلَبِ الْقَوْمِ حَتَّى تَلَاحَقُوا
✧ [The Messenger and his counsel to Abū ʿAyyāsh to leave his horse in the expedition of Dhū Qarad] The Messenger of God ﷺ, as has reached me from men of the Banū Zurayq, said to Abū ʿAyyāsh: "O Abū ʿAyyāsh, would it not have been better had I given this horse to a man who is a better horseman than you, so that he might catch up with the people?" Abū ʿAyyāsh said: I said: "O Messenger of God, I am the best horseman among the people." Then I struck the horse, and by God, it had not carried me fifty cubits before it threw me. I was astonished that the Messenger of God ﷺ said, "Had you given it to one more skilled in horsemanship than you," while I said, "I am the best horseman among the people." Men of the Banū Zurayq claimed that the Messenger of God ﷺ gave the horse of Abū ʿAyyāsh to Muʿādh b. Māʿiṣ, or ʿĀʾidh b. Māʿiṣ b. Qays b. Khalada, and he was the eighth. Some people count Salamah b. ʿAmr b. al-Akwaʿ as one of the eight, and they drop Usayd b. Ẓuhayr, the brother of the Banū Ḥārithah. God knows best which of these it was. Salamah was not a horseman that day; he was the first to catch up with the people on foot. The horsemen went out in pursuit of the people until they caught up with one another.
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1218No grade recorded
[ سَبْقُ مُحْرِزٍ إلَى الْقَوْمِ وَمَقْتَلُهُ في غزوة ذات قرد ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَحَدَّثَنِي عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ: أَنَّ أَوَّلَ فَارِسٍ لَحِقَ بِالْقَوْمِ مُحْرِزُ بْنُ نَضْلَةَ، أَخُو بَنِي أَسَدِ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ - وَكَانَ يُقَالُ لِمُحْرَزِ: الْأَخْرَمُ؛ وَيُقَالُ لَهُ قُمَيْرٌ - وَأَنَّ الْفَزَعَ لَمَّا كَانَ جَالَ فَرَسٌ لِمَحْمُودِ بْنِ مَسْلَمَةَ فِي الْحَائِطِ، حِينَ سَمِعَ صَاهِلَةَ الْخَيْلِ، وَكَانَ فَرَسًا صَنِيعًا جَامًّا، فَقَالَ نِسَاءٌ مِنْ نِسَاءِ بَنِي عَبْدِ الْأَشْهَلِ، حِينَ رَأَيْنَ الْفَرَسَ يَجُولُ فِي الْحَائِطِ بِجِذْعِ نَخْلٍ هُوَ مَرْبُوطٌ فِيهِ: يَا قُمَيْرُ، هَلْ لَكَ فِي أَنْ تَرْكَبَ هَذَا الْفَرَسَ ؟ فَإِنَّهُ كَمَا تَرَى، ثُمَّ تَلْحَقُ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَبِالْمُسْلِمِينَ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، فَأَعْطَيْنَهُ إيَّاهُ. فَخَرَجَ عَلَيْهِ، فَلَمْ يَلْبَثْ أَنْ بَذَّ الْخَيْلَ بِجَمَامِهِ، حَتَّى أَدْرَكَ الْقَوْمَ، فَوَقَفَ لَهُمْ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: قِفُوا يَا مَعْشَرَ بَنِي اللَّكِيعَةِ حَتَّى يَلْحَقَ بِكُمْ مَنْ وَرَاءَكُمْ مِنْ أَدْبَارِكُمْ مِنْ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَالْأَنْصَارِ. قَالَ: وَحَمَلَ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ مِنْهُمْ فَقَتَلَهُ، وَجَالَ الْفَرَسُ، فَلَمْ يَقْدِرْ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى وَقَفَ عَلَى آرِيِّهِ مِنْ بَنِي عَبْدِ الْأَشْهَلِ، فَلَمْ يُقْتَلْ مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ غَيْرُهُ
✧ [The racing ahead of Muḥriz to the people and his death in the expedition of Dhū Qarad] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah related to me that the first horseman to catch up with the people was Muḥriz b. Naḍlah, the brother of the Banū Asad b. Khuzaymah—Muḥriz was called al-Akhram, and he was called Qumayr—and that when the fright occurred, a horse belonging to Maḥmūd b. Maslamah galloped about in the walled garden when it heard the neighing of the horses. It was a well-trained, rested horse. Some women of the women of the Banū ʿAbd al-Ashhal said, when they saw the horse galloping about in the walled garden with a palm trunk to which it was tied: 'O Qumayr, would you like to ride this horse? For it is as you see. Then you can catch up with the Messenger of God ﷺ and the Muslims.' He said: 'Yes.' So they gave it to him. He went out on it, and it was not long before he outstripped the horses with its freshness until he overtook the people. He stood before them in front of them, then said: 'Stop, O company of the Banū al-Lakīʿah, until those behind you from your rear catch up with you—of the Emigrants and the Helpers.' He said: A man from among them charged at him and killed him. The horse bolted, and they could not seize it until it stopped at its tethering place among the Banū ʿAbd al-Ashhal. No Muslim was killed other than him.
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1219No grade recorded
[ رَأْيُ ابْنِ هِشَامٍ فِيمَنْ قُتِلَ مَعَ مُحْرِزٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَقُتِلَ يَوْمَئِذٍ مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ مَعَ مُحْرِزٍ، وَقَّاصُ بْنُ مُجَزِّزٍ الْمُدْلِجِيُّ في غزوة ذات قرد، فَمَا ذَكَرَ غَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ
✧ Ibn Hishām said: On that day, among the Muslims killed with Muḥriz was Waqqāṣ b. Mujazziz al-Mudlijī, in the expedition of Dhū Qarad, so more than one of the people of knowledge mentioned.
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1220No grade recorded
[ أَسَمَاءُ أَفْرَاسِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ في غزوة ذات قرد ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ اسْمُ فَرَسِ مَحْمُودٍ: ذَا اللِّمَّةِ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَكَانَ اسْمُ فَرَسِ سَعْدِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ: لَاحِقَ؛ وَاسْمُ فَرَسِ الْمِقْدَادِ بَعْزَجَةُ، وَيُقَالُ: سُبْحَةُ، وَاسْمُ فَرَسِ عُكَاشَةَ بْنِ مِحْصَنٍ: ذو اللَّمَّةِ؛ وَاسْمُ فَرَسِ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ: حَزْوَةُ؛ وَفَرَسُ عَبَّادِ بْنِ بِشْرٍ: لَمَّاعٌ، وَفَرَسُ أُسَيْدِ بْنِ ظُهَيْرٍ: مَسْنُونٌ؛ وَفَرَسُ أَبِي عَيَّاشٍ: جُلْوَةُ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ مَنْ لَا أَتَّهِمُ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ: أَنَّ مُجَزَّزًا إنَّمَا كَانَ عَلَى فَرَسٍ لِعُكَّاشَةَ بْنِ مِحْصَنٍ، يُقَالُ لَهُ: الْجَنَاحُ، فَقُتِلَ مُجَزِّزٌ وَاسْتُلِبَتْ الْجَنَاحُ
✧ [The names of the Muslims' horses in the expedition of Dhu Qarad] Ibn Ishaq said: The name of Mahmud's horse was Dhu al-Limmah. Ibn Hisham said: The name of Sa'd b. Zayd's horse was Lahiqa; and the name of al-Miqdad's horse was Ba'zaja, and it is also said Subha; and the name of 'Ukasha b. Mihsan's horse was Dhu al-Limmah; and the name of Abu Qatada's horse was Hazwa; and 'Abbad b. Bishr's horse was Lamma'; and Usayd b. Zuhayr's horse was Masnun; and Abu 'Ayyash's horse was Julwa. Ibn Ishaq said: Someone I do not distrust told me, on the authority of 'Abd Allah b. Ka'b b. Malik, that Mujazziz was only on a horse belonging to 'Ukasha b. Mihsan, called al-Janah, and Mujazziz was killed and al-Janah was taken as booty.
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1221No grade recorded
[ الْقَتْلَى مِنْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ في غزوة ذات قرد ] وَلَمَّا تَلَاحَقَتْ الْخَيْلُ قَتَلَ أَبُو قَتَادَةَ الْحَارِثَ بْنَ رِبْعِيٍّ، أَخُو بَنِي سَلِمَةَ، حَبِيبُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ بْنِ حِصْنٍ، وَغَشَّاهُ بُرْدَهُ، ثُمَّ لَحِقَ بِالنَّاسِ. وَأَقْبَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي الْمُسْلِمِينَ
✧ [The Slain among the Polytheists in the Expedition of Dhū Qarad] And when the horses caught up with one another, Abū Qatādah killed al-Ḥārith b. Ribʿī, the brother of Banū Salimah, Ḥabīb b. ʿUyaynah b. Ḥiṣn, and covered him with his cloak. Then he caught up with the people. And the Messenger of God ﷺ came forward among the Muslims.
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1222No grade recorded
[ اسْتِعْمَالُ ابْنِ أُمِّ مَكْتُومٍ عَلَى الْمَدِينَةِ في غزوة ذات قرد ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَاسْتَعْمَلَ عَلَى الْمَدِينَةِ ابْنَ أُمِّ مَكْتُومٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَإِذَا حَبِيبٌ مُسَجَّى بِبُرْدِ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ، فَاسْتَرْجَعَ النَّاسُ وَقَالُوا: قُتِلَ أَبُو قَتَادَةَ؛ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: لَيْسَ بِأَبِي قَتَادَةَ، وَلَكِنَّهُ قُتِلَ لِأَبِي قَتَادَةَ، وَضَعَ عَلَيْهِ بُرْدَهُ، لِتَعْرِفُوا أَنَّهُ صَاحِبُهُ وَأَدْرَكَ عُكَّاشَةُ بْنُ مِحْصَنٍ أَوْبَارًا وَابْنَهُ عَمْرَو بْنَ أَوْبَارٍ، وَهُمَا عَلَى بَعِيرٍ وَاحِدٍ، فَانْتَظَمَهَا بِالرُّمْحِ، فَقَتَلَهُمَا جَمِيعًا، وَاسْتَنْقَذُوا بَعْضَ اللِّقَاحِ، وَسَارَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ حَتَّى نَزَلَ بِالْجَبَلِ مِنْ ذِي قَرَدٍ، وَتَلَاحَقَ بِهِ النَّاسُ، فَنَزَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِهِ، وَأَقَامَ عَلَيْهِ يَوْمًا وَلَيْلَةً؛ وَقَالَ لَهُ سَلَمَةُ بْنُ الْأَكْوَعِ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، لَوْ سَرَّحْتنِي فِي مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ لَاسْتَنْقَذْتُ بَقِيَّةَ السَّرْحِ، وَأَخَذْتُ بِأَعْنَاقِ الْقَوْمِ ؟ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي: إنَّهُمْ الْآنَ لَيُغْبَقُونَ فِي غَطَفَانَ
✧ [The appointment of Ibn Umm Maktūm over Madinah in the expedition of Dhū Qarad] Ibn Hishām said: He appointed Ibn Umm Maktūm over Madinah. Ibn Isḥāq said: And there was Ḥabīb covered with the cloak of Abū Qatādah. The people said, “We belong to God and to Him we return,” and they said, “Abū Qatādah has been killed.” The Messenger of God ﷺ said, “It is not Abū Qatādah, but it is someone killed for Abū Qatādah. He placed his cloak on him so that you would know that he is his companion.” ʿUkkāshah b. Miḥṣan overtook Awbār and his son ʿAmr b. Awbār while they were on a single camel, and he thrust them through with his spear, killing them both. They recovered some of the milch camels. The Messenger of God ﷺ traveled until he dismounted at the mountain of Dhū Qarad, and the people caught up with him. The Messenger of God ﷺ dismounted there and remained there a day and a night. Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ said to him, “O Messenger of God, if you would send me with a hundred men, I would recover the rest of the herd and seize the necks of the people.” The Messenger of God ﷺ said to him, as it has reached me, “They are now being given their evening drink in Ghaṭafān.”
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1223No grade recorded
[ تَقْسِيمُ الْفَيْءِ بَيْنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ في غزوة ذات قرد ] فَقَسَمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي أَصْحَابِهِ فِي كُلِّ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ جَزُورًا، وَأَقَامُوا عَلَيْهَا، ثُمَّ رَجَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَافِلًا حَتَّى قَدِمَ الْمَدِينَةَ
✧ [Division of the spoils among the Muslims in the expedition of Dhū Qarad] The Messenger of God ﷺ divided among his companions one slaughtered camel for every hundred men, and they stayed with it. Then the Messenger of God ﷺ returned as a homeward-bound traveler until he arrived in Madinah.
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1224No grade recorded
[ امْرَأَةُ الْغِفَارِيِّ وَمَا نَذَرَتْ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ في غزوة ذات قرد ] وَأَقْبَلَتْ امْرَأَةُ الْغِفَارِيِّ عَلَى نَاقَةٍ مِنْ إبِلِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، حَتَّى قَدِمَتْ عَلَيْهِ فَأَخْبَرَتْهُ الْخَبَرَ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَتْ، قَالَتْ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إنِّي قَدْ نَذَرْتُ لِلَّهِ أَنْ أَنَحْرَهَا إنْ نَجَّانِي اللَّهُ عَلَيْهَا؛ قَالَ: فَتَبَسَّمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: بِئْسَ مَا جَزَيْتِهَا أَنْ حَمَلَكَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهَا وَنَجَّاكَ بِهَا ثُمَّ تَنْحَرِينَهَا إنَّهُ لَا نَذْرَ فِي مَعْصِيَةِ اللَّهِ وَلَا فِيمَا لَا تَمْلِكِينَ، إنَّمَا هِيَ نَاقَةٌ مِنْ إبِلِي، فَارْجِعِي إلَى أَهْلِكَ عَلَى بَرَكَةِ اللَّهِ وَالْحَدِيثُ عَنْ امْرَأَةِ الْغِفَارِيِّ وَمَا قَالَتْ، وَمَا قَالَ لَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ الْمَكِّيِّ، عَنْ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الْبَصْرِيِّ
✧ [The wife of al-Ghifārī and what she vowed with the Messenger during the expedition of Dhū Qarad] The wife of al-Ghifārī came on a she-camel from the camels of the Messenger of God ﷺ until she arrived to him and told him the news. When she finished, she said, 'O Messenger of God, I vowed to God that I would slaughter her if God saved me upon her.' He said: The Messenger of God ﷺ smiled, then said, 'What a bad reward you have given her: God carried you upon her and saved you by her, then you would slaughter her. There is no vow in disobedience to God, nor in what you do not own. It is only a she-camel from my camels. Return to your family with the blessing of God.' The account concerning the wife of al-Ghifārī and what she said, and what the Messenger of God ﷺ said to her, is from Abū al-Zubayr al-Makkī, from al-Ḥasan b. Abī al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī.
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1225No grade recorded
[ شِعْرُ حَسَّانَ فِي ذِي قَرَدٍ ] وَكَانَ مِمَّا قِيلَ مِنْ الشِّعْرِ فِي يَوْمِ ذِي قَرَدٍ قَوْلُ حَسَّانَ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ: لَوْلَا الَّذِي لَاقَتْ وَمَسَّ نُسُورُهَا بِجَنُوبِ سَايَةَ أَمْسِ فِي التَّقْوَادِ لَلَقِينَكُمْ يَحْمِلْنَ كُلَّ مُدَجَّجٍ حَامِي الْحَقِيقَةِ مَاجِدُ الْأَجْدَادِ وَلَسَرَّ أَوْلَادَ اللَّقِيطَةِ أَنَّنَا سِلْمٌ غَدَاةَ فَوَارِسِ الْمِقْدَادِ كُنَّا ثَمَانِيَةً وَكَانُوا جَحْفَلًا لِجَبَا فَشُكُّوا بِالرِّمَاحِ بَدَادِ كُنَّا مِنْ الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُمْ وَيُقَدِّمُونَ عِنَانَ كُلِّ جَوَادٍ كَلَّا وَرَبِّ الرَّاقِصَاتِ إلَى مِنًى يَقْطَعْنَ عُرْضَ مَخَارِمِ الْأَطْوَادِ حَتَّى نُبِيلَ الْخَيْلَ فِي عَرَصَاتِكُمْ وَنُؤَوِّبُ بِالْمَلَكَاتِ وَالْأَوْلَادِ رَهْوًا بِكُلِّ مُقَلَّصٍ وَطِمَرَّةٍ فِي كُلِّ مُعْتَرَكٍ عَطَفْنَ وَوَادَى أَفْنَى دَوَابِرَهَا وَلَاحَ مُتُونَهَا يَوْمٌ تُقَادُ بِهِ وَيَوْمٌ طِرَادُ فَكَذَاكَ إنَّ جِيَادَنَا مَلْبُونَةٌ وَالْحَرْبُ مُشْعَلَةٌ بِرِيحِ غَوَادٍ وَسُيُوفُنَا بِيضُ الْحَدَائِدِ تَجْتَلِي جُنَنَ الْحَدِيدِ وَهَامَةَ الْمُرْتَادِ أَخَذَ الْإِلَهُ عَلَيْهِمْ لِحَرَامِهِ وَلِعِزَّةِ الرَّحْمَنِ بِالْأَسْدَادِ كَانُوا بِدَارٍ نَاعِمِينَ فَبُدِّلُوا أَيَّامَ ذِي قَرَدٍ وُجُوهَ عِبَادٍ
✧ [Ḥassān's poetry on Dhū Qarad] Among the poetry that was recited on the day of Dhū Qarad was the saying of Ḥassān b. Thābit: Had it not been for what she encountered and its vultures touched at the south of Sāyah yesterday in al-Taqwād, They would have met you carrying every fully armed man, protector of the truth, glorious in ancestry. And it would have pleased the sons of the foundling that we were at peace on the morning of the horsemen of al-Miqdād. We were eight, while they were a mighty host, a throng, and they were pierced with lances in separate groups. We were among the people who followed them closely and who advanced the reins of every swift steed. Nay, by the Lord of the swaying camels toward Minā that cut across the breadth of the mountain passes, Until we let the horses loose in your courtyards and return with the captives and the children, Gently, with every lean-flanked horse and long-bodied mare in every battle they turned aside and in every valley. Their hind hooves were worn away and their backs became visible, one day being led by it and one day a chase. Thus indeed our steeds are ever ready for battle, and war is kindled by the wind of swift raiders. And our swords are white of blades that reveal the shields of iron and the skull of the seeker. God took them to task for His sanctity and for the might of the Merciful, with misfortunes. They were in an abode of ease, but they were transformed on the days of Dhū Qarad into the faces of slaves.
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1226No grade recorded
[ غَضَبُ سَعْدٍ عَلَى حَسَّانَ وَمُحَاوَلَةُ حَسَّانَ اسْتِرْضَاءَهُ في غزوة ذات قرد ]: قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: فَلَمَّا قَالَهَا حَسَّانُ غَضِبَ عَلَيْهِ سَعْدُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، وَحَلَفَ أَنْ لَا يُكَلِّمَهُ أَبَدًا؛ قَالَ: انْطَلَقَ إلَى خَيْلِي وَفَوَارِسِي فَجَعَلَهَا لِلْمِقْدَادِ فَاعْتَذَرَ إلَيْهِ حَسَّانُ وَقَالَ: وَاَللَّهِ مَا ذَاكَ أَرَدْتُ، وَلَكِنَّ الرَّوِيَّ وَافَقَ اسْمَ الْمِقْدَادِ؛ وَقَالَ أَبْيَاتًا يُرْضِي بِهَا سَعْدًا: إذَا أَرَدْتُمْ الْأَشَدَّ الْجَلْدَا أَوْ ذَا غَنَاءٍ فَعَلَيْكُمْ سَعْدًا سَعْدَ بْنَ زَيْدٍ لَا يُهَدُّ هَدًّا فَلَمْ يَقْبَلْ مِنْهُ سَعْدٌ وَلَمْ يُغْنِ شَيْئًا
✧ [Saʿd’s anger with Ḥassān and Ḥassān’s attempt to appease him during the expedition of Dhū Qarad]: Ibn Hishām said: When Ḥassān said it, Saʿd b. Zayd became angry with him and swore that he would never speak to him again. He said: He went away to my horses and my horsemen and made them for al-Miqdād. Ḥassān apologized to him and said: By God, that was not what I intended, but the rhyme happened to fit the name of al-Miqdād. And he recited some verses with which to please Saʿd: If you want the strongest, the hardy one, or one of use, then upon you is Saʿd—Saʿd b. Zayd, who is not overcome. But Saʿd did not accept it from him, and it availed nothing.
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1227No grade recorded
[ شِعْرٌ آخَرُ لِحَسَّانَ فِي يَوْمِ ذِي قَرَدٍ ] وَقَالَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ فِي يَوْمِ ذِي قَرَدٍ: أَظَنَّ عُيَيْنَةُ إذْ زَارَهَا بِأَنْ سَوْفَ يَهْدِمُ فِيهَا قُصُورًا فَأُكْذِبْتَ مَا كُنْتَ صَدَّقْتُهُ وَقُلْتُمْ سَنَغْنَمُ أَمْرًا كَبِيرًا فَعِفْتَ الْمَدِينَةَ إذْ زُرْتهَا وَآنَسْتُ لِلْأُسْدِ فِيهَا زَئِيرًا فَوَلَّوْا سِرَاعًا كَشَدِّ النَّعَامِ وَلَمْ يَكْشِفُوا عَنْ مُلِطٍّ حَصِيرًا أَمِيرٌ عَلَيْنَا رَسُولُ الْمَلِيكِ أَحْبِبْ بِذَاكَ إلَيْنَا أَمِيرًا رَسُولٌ نُصَدِّقُ مَا جَاءَهُ وَيَتْلُو كِتَابًا مُضِيئًا مُنِيرًا
✧ [Another poem by Ḥassān on the day of Dhū Qarad] Ḥassān b. Thābit said concerning the day of Dhū Qarad: Does ʿUyaynah suppose, when he visited it, that he would soon destroy palaces therein? You were made to disbelieve what you had made yourself believe, and you said, “We shall gain a mighty thing.” So you loathed al-Madīnah when you visited it, and you heard the roaring of lions within it. They turned in haste like the running of ostriches, and they did not uncover a shielded warrior. A commander over us is the Messenger of the King— how beloved to us is he as a commander! A messenger whom we believe in what he brought, and he recites a Book, radiant and luminous.
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1228No grade recorded
[ شِعْرُ كَعْبٍ فِي يَوْمِ ذِي قَرَدٍ ] وَقَالَ كَعْبُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ فِي يَوْمِ ذِي قَرَدٍ لِلْفَوَارِسِ: أَتَحْسَبُ أَوْلَادُ اللَّقِيطَةِ أَنَّنَا عَلَى الْخَيْلِ لَسْنَا مِثْلَهُمْ فِي الْفَوَارِسِ وَإِنَّا أُنَاسٌ لَا نَرَى الْقَتْلَ سُبَّةً وَلَا نَنْثَنِي عِنْدَ الرِّمَاحِ الْمَدَاعِسِ وَإِنَّا لَنَقْرِي الضَّيْفَ مِنْ قَمَعِ الذُّرَا وَنَضْرِبُ رَأْسَ الْأَبْلَخِ الْمُتَشَاوِسِ نَرُدُّ كُمَاةَ الْمُعْلَمِينَ إذَا انْتَخَوْا بِضَرْبٍ يُسْلِي نَخْوَةَ الْمُتَقَاعِسِ بِكُلِّ فَتًى حَامِي الْحَقِيقَةَ مَاجِدٍ كَرِيمٍ كَسِرْحَانِ الْغَضَاةِ مُخَالِسِ يَذُودُونَ عَنْ أَحْسَابهِمْ وَتِلَادِهِمْ بِبِيضٍ تَقُدُّ الْهَامَ تَحْتَ الْقَوَانِسِ فَسَائِلْ بَنِي بَدْرٍ إذَا مَا لَقِيتَهُمْ بِمَا فَعَلَ الْإِخْوَانُ يَوْمَ التَّمَارُسِ إذَا مَا خَرَجْتُمْ فَاصْدُقُوا مَنْ لَقِيتُمْ وَلَا تَكْتُمُوا أَخْبَارَكُمْ فِي الْمَجَالِسِ وَقُولُوا زَلِلْنَا عَنْ مَخَالِبِ خَادِرٍ بِهِ وَحَرٌ فِي الصَّدْرِ مَا لَمْ يُمَارِسْ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: أَنْشَدَنِي بَيْتَهُ: وَإِنَّا لَنَقْرِي الضَّيْفَ أَبُو زَيْدٍ
✧ [Kaʿb's poetry on the day of Dhū Qarad] Kaʿb b. Mālik said on the day of Dhū Qarad concerning the horsemen: Do the sons of the foundling woman think that we, on horseback, are not like them among the horsemen? We are a people who do not regard killing as a disgrace, and we do not turn back before the thrusting spears. We indeed entertain the guest from the tops of the sandhills, and we strike the head of the haughty, insolent one. We repulse the warriors of the marked ones when they boast, with blows that make the vaunt of the laggard cease. With every young man, protector of what is sacred, glorious, generous, like a wolf of the ghaḍā trees, snatching. They defend their honors and their inherited wealth with white swords that cleave the skulls beneath the helmets. Ask the Banū Badr when you meet them what the brothers did on the day of mutual struggle. When you go out, tell the truth to those you meet, and do not conceal your news in the assemblies. And say: We slipped away from the claws of a lion with heat in the breast as long as one does not fight. Ibn Hishām said: Abū Zayd recited to me his verse: “We indeed entertain the guest.”
Sirat Ibn Hisham 1229No grade recorded
[ شِعْرُ شَدَّادٍ لِعُيَيْنَةَ في غزوة ذات قرد ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ شَدَّادُ بْنُ عَارِضٍ الْجُشَمِيُّ، فِي يَوْمِ ذِي قَرَدٍ: لِعُيَيْنَةَ بْنِ حِصْنٍ، وَكَانَ عُيَيْنَةُ بْنُ حِصْنٍ يُكَنَّى بِأَبِي مَالِكٍ: فَهَلَّا كَرَرْتَ أَبَا مَالِكٍ وَخَيْلُكَ مُدْبِرَةٌ تُقْتَلُ ذَكَرْتَ الْإِيَابَ إلَى عَسْجَرٍ وَهَيْهَاتَ قَدْ بَعُدَ الْمُقْفَلُ وَطَمَّنْتَ نَفْسَكَ ذَا مَيْعَةَ مِسَحِّ الْفَضَاءِ إذَا يُرْسَلُ إذَا قَبَّضَتْهُ إلَيْكَ الشَّمَا لُ جَاشَ كَمَا اضْطَرَمَ الْمِرْجَلُ فَلَمَّا عَرَفْتُمْ عِبَادَ الْإِلَهِ لَمْ يَنْظُرْ الْآخَرَ الْأَوَّلَ عَرَفْتُمْ فَوَارِسَ قَدْ عُوِّدُوا طِرَادَ الْكُمَاةِ إذَا أَسْهَلُوا إذَا طَرَدُوا الْخَيْلَ تَشْقَى بِهِمْ فِضَاحًا وَإِنْ يُطْرَدُوا يَنْزِلُوا فَيَعْتَصِمُوا فِي سَوَاءِ اُلْمُقَا مِ بِالْبِيضِ أَخْلَصَهَا الصَّيْقَلُ
✧ [The poetry of Shaddād to ʿUyaynah in the expedition of Dhū Qarad] Ibn Isḥāq said: Shaddād b. ʿĀriḍ al-Jushamī said, on the day of Dhū Qarad, to ʿUyaynah b. Ḥiṣn, and ʿUyaynah b. Ḥiṣn was given the kunyah Abū Mālik: So why did you not turn back, Abū Mālik, while your horses were in retreat, being killed? You mentioned returning to ʿAsjar, but far away—the return journey has become distant. You reassured yourself with one of quick spirit, a swift runner of the open spaces when he is let loose. When the north wind grasped him toward you, he surged like a cooking pot that has flared up. And when you recognized the servants of God, the first did not wait for the last. You recognized horsemen who had been trained in pursuing warriors when they went down to the plain. When they drive the horses, they suffer with them in open ground, but if they are driven back, they dismount, And they seek refuge in the midst of the battlefield with white swords, which the polisher has made pure.